Cabinet Costa I

As Cabinet Costa I , the 21 constitutional, the President of Portugal, Aníbal Cavaco Silva , commissioned Portuguese government under Prime Minister António Costa called, also in Portugal XXI Governo Constitucional de Portugal to German XXI. called the constitutional government of Portugal. She ruled from November 26, 2015. After the 2019 parliamentary election , she was replaced by the Costa II cabinet .

Parliamentary elections 2015 and the consequences

The 2015 parliamentary elections in Portugal took place on October 4th, 2015. The members of the Assembleia da República were elected for the four-year legislative period until 2019. The incumbent government under Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho lost an absolute majority in parliament. The bourgeois electoral alliance of the PSD and CDS , Portugal à Frente (Forward Portugal) , remained the relatively strongest force. The turnout was just under 57 percent. However, President Cavaco Silva left the previous government in office.

However, on October 10, 2015, after only eleven days, the Passos Coelho government was overthrown. An alliance of opposition socialists and communists passed a successful vote of no confidence in parliament. Since then, President Aníbal Cavaco Silva has held talks with all relevant parties and social groups in order to lift the political stalemate. However, this did not happen without protests, especially from the left-wing parties and personalities close to them.

On November 24, 2015 (Portuguese: indicar ) Cavaco named Silva António Costa ( Partido Socialista ) as the new head of government, which led to speculation and speculation among the public. Instead of "nominate" (Portuguese: indignar ) he used the word "name" (Portuguese: indicar ). Two days later, the Costa cabinet was sworn in in the Palácio Nacional da Ajuda . The minority government of the Partido Socialista (PS) relies on the toleration of the radical left of the Bloco de Esquerda (BE) as well as the Partido Comunista Portugués (PCP) and the Partido Ecologista Os Verdes (PEV), which as the electoral alliance Coligação Democrática Unitária (CDU) ) have been running together since 1987 and form a parliamentary group in parliament.

composition

Prime Minister António Costa has ruled Portugal with a 17-member cabinet since November 26, 2015 . The current personnel composition and the departmental structure of the XXI. Portuguese government result as follows:

Costa Cabinet - since November 26, 2015

Office	Surname	Political party
prime minister	António Costa (since November 26, 2015)	PS
Vice Prime Minister	Eduardo Cabrita (November 26, 2015 - October 18, 2017)	PS
	Pedro Siza Vieira (since October 21, 2017)	independently
Ministry of Presidential and Parliamentary Affairs	Miguel Prata Roque (since November 26, 2015)	PS
Ministry of Finance	Mário Centeno (since November 26, 2015)	independently
Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Augusto Santos Silva (since November 26, 2015)	PS
Ministry of National Defense	José Azeredo Lopes (November 26, 2015 - October 15, 2018)	independently
	João Gomes Cravinho (since October 15, 2018)	independently
Ministry of Internal Administration	Constança Urbano de Sousa (November 24, 2015 - October 18, 2017)	independently
	Eduardo Cabrita (since October 18, 2017)	PS
Ministry of Justice	Francisca Van Dunem (since November 26, 2015)	independently
Ministry of Economy	Manuel Caldeira Cabral (since November 26, 2015)	independently
Ministry of Labor, Solidarity and Social Security	José Vieira da Silva (since November 26, 2015)	PS
Ministry of Presidency and Modernization of Administration	Maria Manuel Leitão Marques (November 26, 2015 - February 18, 2019)	PS
	Mariana Vieira da Silva (since February 18, 2019)	PS
Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education	Manuel Heitor (since November 26, 2015)	PS
Ministry of Planning and Infrastructures	Pedro Marques (November 26, 2015 - February 18, 2019)	PS
Ministry of Planning	Nelson de Souza (since February 18, 2019)	PS
Ministry of Infrastructure and Housing	Pedro Nuno Santos (since February 18, 2019)	PS
Ministry of the Environment, Regional Planning and Energy	João Matos Fernandes (since November 26, 2015)	PS
Ministry of Health	Adalberto Campos Fernandes (November 26, 2015 - October 15, 2018)	PS
	Marta Temido (since October 15, 2018)	independently
Ministry of Education	Tiago Brandão Rodrigues (since November 26, 2015)	independently
Ministry of Culture	João Soares (November 26, 2015 - April 14, 2016)	PS
	Luís Filipe Castro Mendes (April 14, 2016 - October 15, 2018)	independently
	Graça Fonseca (since October 15, 2018)	PS
Ministry of Agriculture	Luís Capoulas Santos (since November 26, 2015)	PS
Ministry of the Sea	Ana Paula Vitorino (since November 26, 2015)	PS

Web links

• Portuguese government website (Portuguese, English)
• Government Composition: XXI. Government

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Portugal moves to the left , sueddeutsche.de, accessed on November 28, 2015
2. ↑ Newly elected socialist government takes up work. In: Deutschlandfunk.de . October 26, 2019, accessed October 26, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Portugal: Government coalition wins parliamentary elections , spiegel.de, accessed on November 28, 2015
4. ^ Portuguese government overthrown , faz.net, October 10, 2015
5. ↑ Cavaco "indicou 'em vez de" indigitar "Costa. “É um erro bem calculado”, diz Louçã , expresso.pt, accessed on November 25, 2015 (Portuguese)
6. ↑ Portugal dependent on communists after Costa's takeover , welt.de, accessed on December 1, 2015
7. ↑ Quem são os novos Ministros , publico.pt, accessed on November 25, 2015 (Portuguese)